j & shea

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

prayers to spare?

please pray for this mama & these babies as they are in the fight of their lives.

http://www.projectbabyblog.com/post/19627293175/people-to-pray-for

and for a friend's son, denny, as he battles a rare form of liver cancer:

http://www.carepages.com/carepages/DennyOurLittleMan/patient

& THANK YOU JESUS for all the blessings in our lives, and specifically for our healthy little boy & this healthy pregnancy & healthy baby girl.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

holden's 1st visit to the dentist

you had your first visit to the dentist today, holden. you were perfectly happy to sit in mommy's lap, but weren't one bit pleased about having your teeth inspected. luckily you opened wide & she was able to see what she needed to see. you have four top teeth and four bottom teeth & just as we suspected, your molars are coming in, which is very painful for little mouths - instead of the pointy little teeth popping through, this is essentially a big blunt square breaking the skin. she said not to be surprised if you're fussier than normal, not wanting to eat or if we notice changes in your sleeping patterns. so just as we suspected, that must be what has been waking you up so much at night & cutting your naps short.

you'll continue going to the dentist every time mommy or daddy go for a cleaning & hopefully when you're a little older, you'll be so used to it that you'll just hop right up in that chair all by yourself!

mommy & daddy are going to do our very best to keep you as comfortable as possible until those big bullies are all the way through, little one.

we love you!

Monday, March 19, 2012

holden being holden

i'm trying to take more videos of normal every day stuff. because these normal every day moments are pure bliss & i don't ever want to forget them!

15 months old - snapshot

here's a quick snapshot of what's going on in my life:

My favorites:
Toy - weebles
Food - peanut butter and banana sandwiches and pizza
Place - outside
Outfit - whatever... as long as i'm barefoot!
Snack - earth's best honey sticks

My least favorites:
Chore - diaper changes
Place - the doctor's office

What I ate for breakfast:
oatmeal with apples and pineapples

What I ate for lunch:
peanut butter and banana sandwich

What I ate for dinner:
vegetable lasagna

Most recent milestone:
i'm walking more and more & getting steadier on my feet every day!

i wear 24 months-2T clothes, size 5 shoes and size 5 disposable diapers (medium and large fuzzibunz and one size bumgenius)

i'm the sweetest, smartest and most handsome little boy in the world.
just ask my mommy & daddy!

baby girl

i haven't been doing very good with the belly pics this time around. not because we're one bit less excited, but [complete honesty here] i've been hating my hair lately. there i said it. how vain is that? & furthermore, i am so over frumpy maternity clothes. and my maternity wardrobe is actually MUCH better this time around. even after holden was born, i had been slowly adding more and more cute pieces to my maternity wardrobe & terri gave me a ton of awesome hand-me-downs. but let's face it... without spending a fortune, cute maternity clothes are few and far between, it takes a lot of searching! so even your cute clothes you get tired of because you wear them over & over & over again. but both of those reasons are ridiculous excuses for not better documenting this exciting time. i'm going to be better from here on out, bad hair days, bad wardrobe days or not!

we're officially past the halfway point & i feel very fortunate to have been blessed with such easy pregnancies to this point (you know, minus the whole appendectomy thing last time!)

before our anatomy ultrasound, i was guessing girl. only because this pregnancy had been different from my first in some ways:

my initial weight gain much slower,
the way i'm carrying the weight much different (so much more in my belly rather than all over),
i'm cold all the time now, rather than hot all the time,
more morning sickness

and what do you know... a sweet baby girl it is!

my morning sickness (and i've been blessed that "morning sickness" to me means nausea, not vomiting) went away around week 10, but it came back around week 16 and has hung around ever since. up until week 10, it was isolated to morning time. now, it can hit me any time of the day.

with holden, i was very tired my entire pregnancy. i never experienced that burst of energy you look forward to in your second trimester, or nesting either, for that matter. with this pregnancy, i was tired my first trimester, but then i did seem to get that burst of energy at the beginning of my second trimester. unfortunately, it only lasted about a month though and for the past few weeks (starting around week 19), i have been absolutely exhausted. i'm talking unload-the-dishwasher-&-i'm-drained exhausted. i'm hoping it is just a passing thing because i don't want to feel this way for the next 4 months! not to mention, our house is starting to show the effects!

pregnancy survey - 17 weeks

How far along? 17 weeks
Weight gain/loss: gained 6 pounds
Maternity clothes? Oh yes.
Stretch marks? no new ones ;)
Sleep? i'll have to post an update soon on holden's progress! oh... me? pregnancy wise? great!
Best moment this week? bounce house with jason & holden
Food cravings: haagen daz strawberry ice cream
Gender: we'll know in 8 days!
Belly button in or out? still in
Movement? i felt our little one move for the first time the night before valentines. i thought i had felt movement before that, but that was the first time little man wasn't in my arms or on my lap, so i was absolutely certain!
What I miss? my j.brand skinny jeans
What I'm looking forward to: finding out the sex next week!!
Milestones: we took down holden's play pen today. we'll enjoy the space temporarily until our next one is ready for it!

18.5 weeks